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horrible default colors for emacs -nw |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:09:03 -0700 |
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2011-04-25 on 3249CTO
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/imagesupport/include'
1. The region is a dark blue that does not invert the black foreground. So
selected text is illegible.
2. When sending a bug report the To and Subject lines have yellow text (on a
white background). Illegible. Other text, such as "--text follows this line--"
is cyan on white - also too light a color to be legible.
3. About the only reasonable color used for sending a bug report is for the
field names (e.g. From:) - that uses a dark green. All the rest is ridiculous:
magenta, yellow, light cyan foregrounds on a white background - by default?
What were you thinking?
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Re: bug#8597: horrible default colors for emacs -nw |
Date: |
Sat, 07 May 2011 18:48:47 +0300 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:26:37 -0700
>
> > I think Emacs cannot figure out the background mode in a -nw session,
> > at least not in general. There's no interface to the text terminal
> > that can tell it that. But I will try to see if there's something
> > that can be done on Windows specifically.
>
> OK, thanks. If nothing can be done then please close the bug.
>
> I think I just copied my shortcut for ordinary Emacs without -nw and then
> added
> the -nw. It works fine for ordinary (non -nw) Emacs.
I fixed this (in revno 104155 on the trunk). xterm.el already queries
the terminal about the background color, so I used a similar technique
to do the same on the w32 console, except that I needed a new
primitive for that.
I'm closing this bug. If you see anything wrong with how the new code
works with your shortcut, feel free to reopen it.
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